“I feel like he’s my angel,” Tiffany, whose last name was withheld for privacy, told reporters at a Martin County Sheriff’s Office press conference.

On Wednesday, Tiffany was out for her nightly jog along U.S. 1 in Hobe Sound near Osprey Street. She usually listens to music, but her kids had broken her headphones.

”I hear breathing, and it’s pretty heavy,” Tiffany said.

At first Tiffany thought it was just another jogger behind her, until she suddenly found herself in a choke hold being dragged to the ground onto her back.

“He put his hand over my mouth and he said,’Shhh, shhh,’” Tiffany recalled. “He said,’Give it to me.’”

Tiffany realized if her attacker managed to drag her into the woods, she would most likely be killed. She thought about her kids, and fought back.

“I told myself there is a lot of life ahead of me and this is not the way I’m going to be taken out,” Tiffany said.

Tiffany managed to kick her way out of the hold and ran into the middle of traffic on busy U.S. 1. She was flailing her arms and screaming for help, but cars simply passed by.

“Cars are just going,” an emotional Tiffany said. “That was heartbreaking.”

An off-duty Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Deputy by the name of Daniel Ganzel stopped.

“My wife’s already on the phone with 911. I jump out of my car with ID and badge and everything in and trying to say, 'Stop police,” Ganzel said.

The suspect, Steven Jordis, was riding away on his bicycle. Despite having an injured wrist and being on desk duty at work, Ganzel managed to chase Jordis down and hold him until Martin County Sheriff’s deputies arrived.

Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said this very well could have been a homicide, but Tiffany decided to fight back.

Snyder also said there is a “very good possibility” Jordis was also the attacker in an attempted sexual assault on the Blue Heron Bridge in Riviera Beach a few weeks prior.

The victim in that attack told WPBF 25 News exclusively that she was incredibly upset Riviera Beach Police did not make the composite sketch of her attacker public, which bears a resemblance to Jordis.